3:12 PM,
Oct. 20, 2012

The ribs in this Southern Foodways Alliance symposium box lunch come from Cozy Corner, a Memphis barbecue shop that opened in 1977 the same month that Elvis Presley died. Photo by Jennifer Justus/The Tennessean

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Jennifer Justus
The Tennessean

Editor's Note: Tennessean food writer Jennifer Justus is at the 15th Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium in Oxford, Miss., and will report on the event. The popular culinary conference sold out in less than 15 minutes this year.

Sometimes at conferences, people eat lunch from a box.

But like so many meals at the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium, this box lunch tells a deeper story. ...